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Another word for tissue

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Noun

  1. An interwoven or interrelated number of things

      1. A woven fabric, especially one on a loom or just removed from it.
      2. The structural part of cloth.
      3. A latticed or woven structure:
      1. An openwork fabric or structure in which cords, threads, or wires cross at regular intervals.
      2. A system of lines or channels that cross or interconnect:
      3. A complex, interconnected group or system:
    See also:

    group

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Another word for tissue

Noun

  1. A network

      1. A number of objects or events arranged or coming one after the other in succession.
      2. A set of stamps, coins, or currency issued in a particular period.
      3. A group of objects related by linearly varying successive differences in form or configuration:
      1. A bundle of cut stalks of grain or similar plants bound with straw or twine.
      2. A collection of items held or bound together:
      3. An archer's quiver.
      1. A unified body of matter with no specific shape:
      2. A grouping of individual parts or elements that compose a unified body of unspecified size or quantity:
      3. A large but nonspecific amount or number:
      1. A group of objects held together, as by tying or wrapping.
      2. Something wrapped or tied up for carrying; a package.
      3. A cluster or strand of closely bound muscle or nerve fibers.
      1. Something wrapped up or packaged; a package.
      2. A plot of land, usually a division of a larger area.
      3. A quantity of merchandise offered for sale.
      1. The act or action of crossing.
      2. A place at which roads, lines, or tracks intersect; an intersection.
      3. A place at which a river, railroad, or highway, for example, may be crossed:
      1. Delicate and intricate ornamental work made from gold, silver, or other fine twisted wire.
      2. An intricate, delicate, or fanciful ornamentation.
      3. A design resembling such ornamentation:
      1. Any of the open spaces in a net or network; an interstice.
      2. The cords, threads, or wires surrounding these spaces.
      3. An openwork fabric or structure; a net or network:
      1. A woven fabric, especially one on a loom or just removed from it.
      2. The structural part of cloth.
      3. A latticed or woven structure:
    See also:

    network

  2. Thin fabric

    See also:

    web

    veil

    cloth

  3. Protective layer, especially in living organisms

    See also:

    muscle

  4. A soft paper

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Sentence Examples

  • The whole of the tissue of the plant is formed by the division of this apical cell.

  • In the polyp the nervous tissue is always in the form of a scattered plexus, never concentrated to form a definite nervous system as in the medusa.

  • You were lucky and there was no torn tissue or fractures.

  • A small packet wrapped in tissue fell to her lap.

  • Next the larvae make their way into the connective tissue in the pro-thorax, and ultimately bore a channel into the base of the piercing apparatus and come to rest between the hypopharynx and the labium.

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